From 54420109ac1fedd244f59058d1d3024e301c1fbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ansuz <ansuz@transitiontech.ca>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:32:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] update the open file limit in the example systemd service
 file

---
 docs/cryptpad.service | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/cryptpad.service b/docs/cryptpad.service
index 54adf12e9..eee8b2af5 100644
--- a/docs/cryptpad.service
+++ b/docs/cryptpad.service
@@ -19,5 +19,10 @@ Group=cryptpad
 # modify to match your working directory
 Environment='PWD="/home/cryptpad/cryptpad/cryptpad"'
 
+# systemd sets the open file limit to 4000 unless you override it
+# cryptpad stores its data with the filesystem, so you should increase this to match the value of `ulimit -n`
+# or risk EMFILE errors.
+LimitNOFILE=1000000
+
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target